NEW DELHI: Shares of PSU were trading in the green in Friday's afternoon session.
Shares of HPCL (down 1.78 per cent) , National Mineral Development Corp (down 1.52 per cent) , Bharat Heavy Electricals (down 1.32 per cent) , Bharat Electronics (down 1.31 per cent) , NTPC (down 1.19 per cent) , Power Grid Corporation of India (down 1.15 per cent) , Coal India (down 1.09 per cent) , New Indian Assurance (down 0.96 per cent) , Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 0.85 per cent) , REC (down 0.76 per cent) , Steel Authority of India (down 0.74 per cent) , Power Finance Corporation (down 0.54 per cent) , Container Corporation of India (down 0.19 per cent) and Indian Oil Corporation (down 0.12 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
The Nifty PSE index was trading 0.5 per cent down at 3254.10 around 12:12 pm.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 59.25 points at 12222.95 , while the BSE Sensex was down 180.03 points at 41,446.61.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 11 were trading in the green, while 39 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, GMR Infra, Tata Motors, SAIL, ONGC, GAIL, Zee Ent.
and NBCC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.